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Ladataan... Wylder's Hand (1864)Tekijä: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
  
Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta.  Longcluse | Mar 24, 2023 |   For the full review, please see my blog: https://theidlewoman.net/2021/04/28/wylders-hand-1864-joseph-sheridan-le-fanu/ (  ) TheIdleWoman | May 5, 2021 | Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish author, probably best known for the short story 'Carmilla' about a female vampire. Carmilla was a great influence on Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula, and has been used as the basis of many horror films. Le Fanu was the author of many other excellent gothic horror short stories. His best known novels are Uncle Silas and The House by the Churchyard, both dripping with gothic chills. (  ) JoLynnsbooks | Jan 8, 2016 | Other than that, though, some really excellent characters and a good Victorian-style thriller, with dark copses between fancy country houses, mistaken identities, and complicated financial machinations. Good stuff! (  )1  JBD1 | Dec 28, 2013 | ) HarryMacDonald | Oct 14, 2012 | ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
Classic Literature.
Fiction.
HTML: Wylder's Hand is a novel from Gothic and mystery writer Sheridan Le Fanu. "There was a little fair-haired child playing on the ground before the steps as I whirled by. The old rector had long passed away; the shorts, gaiters, and smile -- a phantom; and nature, who had gathered in the past, was providing for the future. The pretty mill-road, running up through Redman's Dell, dank and dark with tall romantic trees, was left behind in another moment; and we were now traversing the homely and antique street of the little town, with its queer shops and solid steep-roofed residences. Up Church-street I contrived a peep at the old gray tower where the chimes hung; and as we turned the corner a glance at the "Brandon Arms." How very small and low that palatial hostelry of my earlier recollections had grown! There were new faces at the door. It was only two-and-twenty years ago, and I was then but eleven years old. A retrospect of a score of years or so, at three-and-thirty, is a much vaster affair than a much longer one at fifty. The whole thing seemed like yesterday; and as I write, I open my eyes and start and cry, "can it be twenty, five-and-twenty, aye, by Jove! five-and-thirty, years since then?" How my days have flown! And I think when another such yesterday shall have arrived, where shall I be?" .Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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 Google Books — Ladataan...LajityypitMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.8Literature English English fiction Victorian period 1837-1900Kongressin kirjaston luokitusArvio (tähdet)Keskiarvo: (3.28)
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As others have mentioned, the narration style is bizarre as Le Fanu chose to make his narrator a character, but declined to develop that character or include him in most of the action, and switched between first person and omniscient narration in the same chapter sometimes. If Le Fanu had edited out 75% of the sentences containing the word “futurity” as well as the incessant duplicate physical descriptions of the main characters every time they reappear (Stanley’s yellow eyes, Larkin’s dove-like eyes and oblong head), he would have had more room to unfold major events instead of reporting that they had occurred and that he did not know how. Were there not editors back in the day?
The primary female character(s) here are, amazingly, developed with a depth and force of character very unusual for Le Fanu or Dickens, which allowed me to invest in the story to a degree I wouldn’t have otherwise. I wished more of the action had included the heroine rather than the movements of the antagonists. (